Abbreviate the words still spelled out
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
Where part of a correspondent's or an interviewee's institution is abbreviated and the rest is not, the remaining words are abbreviated too — “Univ. of Wis. L. Sch.”, not “Univ. of Wisconsin L. Sch.”.1
- Wrong
- Univ. of Wisconsin L. Sch.
- Right
- Univ. of Wis. L. Sch.
- 1R. 17.2.3 Letters, Memoranda, and Press Releases; R. 17.2.5 Interviews. Tables: T6 Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations; T10 Geographical Terms; T13 Institutional Names in Periodical Titles.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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